Interprofessional collaboration is not optional in modern behavior analytic practice—it is a clinical necessity. The individuals and families served by behavior analysts rarely receive services from a single discipline.
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Join Free →Professional practice as a behavior analyst requires the ability to successfully collaborate with other professionals, especially those from allied professions. Outcomes depend upon the ability to discern the need for collaboration with other professions, and the best interests of the client are served by interdisciplinary care. The skills needed to be successful in the context of interprofessional collaboration are complex and nuanced, and include both knowledge of other fields and skills related to team intervention. This presentation will outline the state of our understanding about how successful we are in forging successful alliances across related disciplines of care, the barriers that impede success in these contexts, the component skills that may be most important to address in training practitioners, models for guiding our decisions regarding collaborative care, and ways to evaluate our success in these contexts.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 0.5 | Ethics |
| APA | 0 | — |
| COA | 0.5 | — |
| NY State Board for Social Work CEs | 0 | — |
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Dean of Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 14 years. She also does research with the team at Melmark. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1990. She previously worked for 16 years at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University. Her interests center on defining best practice and humane ABA techniques, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into service delivery, enhancing the ethical conduct of practitioners, training staff to be effective at collaboration, and identifying effective instructinal methods in higher education. She is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, on the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in Practice, on the ABA Ethics Hotline, and as an advisor to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.